by andrea | Oct 7, 2018 | Blog, Our Song, Tutorials
The traditional lone star quilt is the base for Our Song, Your Reflection. This beautiful classic design uses strip sets cut on the diagonal to create a large-scale pattern. Here are some tips to make this a successful endeavour! First things...
by andrea | Oct 1, 2018 | Blog, Our Song, Tutorials
You’ve made your quilt top. You’ve made it through basting. You’ve got it quilted. It looks great. And now for the binding. I love it when every detail of a quilt points to a unified concept and the binding is the icing on the cake. For Our...
by andrea | Aug 11, 2018 | Blog, Tutorials
The call for 2019 QuiltCon charity quilts is twin-sized group quilts in a specific colourway (above) using this year’s theme, small piecing. The guild that I am a part of, the Maritime Modern Quilt Guild, will be submitting a quilt and we will incorporate the...
by andrea | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog, Tutorials
School has already started up for many kids in the USA and here in Canada, we’re not too far off. I won some beautiful fat quarters from Stash Fabrics back in the spring. Now many of you know that I choose to use solid fabrics in my quilts over printed fabrics....
by andrea | Feb 10, 2018 | Blog, Tutorials
Setting and re-setting your ruler can take valuable seconds, especially when you’re doing it hundreds of times. Whether you’re cutting HSTs or trimming off corners of a snowball blocks, this method lets you make a few cuts in one fell swoop. Line up (up...
by andrea | Feb 2, 2018 | Blog, Tutorials
You know that moment when you’ve cut all your pieces for a project and you’re ready to sew, sew, sew? It’s the go-time moment. I think we all love this part – when we can just feed that beautiful fabric through the machine in one long chain. We...
